was sloping
- past progressive of slope.
Example Sentences
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Only now the soil is several inches higher than it was, sloping upward behind the ladder.
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
The ground was sloping downward now, and becoming more and more like a rubbish dump.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
Sirius blazed like a signal at the side of the hill, Orion, stately and magnificent, was sloping along.
From The Rainbow by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
The shore at that point was sloping and practically clear of undergrowth.
From West Wind Drift by McCutcheon, George Barr
The next day, however, I found a few survivors hard at work digging again; but this time every hole was sloping instead of perpendicular.
From St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. V, August, 1878, No 10. Scribner's Illustrated by Various
